Sentence examples for splendid about this from inspiring English sources

There is also something rather splendid about this extended-play peep show, as if Mr. Maddin had stumbled across a hitherto lost archive of cinema's less-than-innocent past.

There was something splendid about the fact that Nige survived to draw his pension.

There was admittedly something splendid about the gesture of sending help to the Ionian revolt, and it has been suggested accordingly that early 5th-century depictions on vases of Theseus attacking the Amazons (inhabitants of Anatolia) may be a coded allusion to Athens' Asiatic adventure of the 490s.

What is splendid about Oz is the detail of things – yellow bricks, emerald glasses, oilcans.

And the unfortunate part of it was, there was nothing splendid about it at all.

But what is most splendid about Surya is the entirely meatless side of the menu.

She was unique". "What was so splendid about her was that she was completely maverick," agreed the novelist Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker and Carnegie awards.

"What was so splendid about her was that she was completely maverick," agreed the novelist Penelope Lively, winner of the Booker and Carnegie awards.

What was splendid about his blog is that he laid out all the polls for readers to judge for themselves, unlike Real Clear Politics which seemed to miss out quite a number of them.This maths-based approach is to be applauded, if only because we have in the past given too much credence to the pundits and their views (dangerous ground for a columnist, of course).

There is nothing "splendid" about isolation.

Mr. Chabon -- who was, at the book's publication in 1988, only 24, not long out of college himself -- did tackle weightier stuff, but with such a featherweight touch that even the murder of his narrator Art Bechstein's friend and Art's memories of his mother's death seemed to be more about Mr. Chabon's splendid sentences than about this character's feelings.